Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Cargill's corporate official confirmed that 44 peoplehave been laid off at "company owned" turkey farms in theWaco area.

Mark Klein, Director of Communications at the corporation'sheadquarters in Minneapolis, said 730 employees are still employed at the Waco locations, including the processing plant and feed mill.

Numerous Hispanic people had claimed an estimated 60 peoplehad been laid off recently.

Sixty jobs in this country is a hefty number of jobs.

Those who were laid off say "los guajolotes" were loaded on trucks and shipped away. They say that the farms have been closed down and they have been laid off.

Managers at the Cargill's plant in Waco were quick to say they cannot comment. A manager who supervises the turkey farms located in the Bosque area was unavailable for comment. A man who answered the local Cargill's phone number said he is unauthorized to make any statement whatsoever.

Ms. Lindsay Wright, an employee in Cargill's Human Resources Department at Waco offered to direct any inquiries to management, but stopped short of confirming that many people have been let go and the farms shut down.

A human resources specialist at Texas Work Force said that many people have been laid off from agribusiness jobs in the past few days. That source refused to be identified or quoted for attribution.